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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
There is no good analogy, because he's confusing ex ante and ex post strategy.
Before the game, the underdog will want to shorten the game because random chance evens out over a longer period, so if the game is "shorter" there's a greater chance luck will allow the underdog to win. This is the strategy villanova took in 1985--it kept the game slow from the start. They took, what, 28 shots, hitting 22 of them? It worked out, and then we got the shot clock so that strategy no longer works so well.
Once the game gets going and a team gets the lead, the leading team (regardless of whether they're stronger) will want to waste time, because it reduces opportunities for the other team to come back.
Of course, that doesn't work in untimed sports (except if rain is coming in baseball).
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I missed TM's statement that in tennis, there is no knockout shot, bc I don't read Thurgreed on Sports. That said, he is very ig'nant. The Overhead Smash comes to mind just off the top of my head. I could go off on tennis strategy and how you get to the knock out shot, but I won't bc I don't think anyone here either gives a fly ing fuck, or would have the knowledge to challenge me if they disagreed. I say this at risk of making str8's analogy, whatever it was, correct.
